I installed .199 last night, charged the phone overnight, and it's been running on battery about 14 hours today. It was 2.5 hours on bluetooth (with a couple of long calls), with about 10 or 11 hours on UMA and the rest on EDGE. Several calls today (UMA and EDGE with BT), a couple of dozen text msgs, a couple of dozen emails. BBWeather and Viigo running all day. Battery is down to 65% now, after 14 hours of use.
This is OK, but I think I actually did a bit better with .174, although this is clearly not a scientific approach, just my impressions.
As I reported a few days ago, I've found that UMA is rock solid in my home, in my public library, in Panera, in BestBuy (they have unprotected WiFi sessions open) and a couple of other spots. At home office, it seems our SonicWall wifi access point is set in such a way that my 8900 can't hold onto a UMA session, but keeps reverting back to EDGE. Whatever is causing this, all other wireless devices we've tried connect to the SonicWall happily - and stay connected (although this is the only UMA device in the office).
I had the problem with .174, and also still have it with .199.
Aside from this: I'm showing about 130MB free, having started the morning with 139MB free. I haven't been logging these figures, so I really don't know if that's any better or worse than the situation with .174
Overall, it seems fine -- doesn't cure everything, but it seems solid and zippy.
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